Check out the French trailer for PERSECUTION starring Romain Duris, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Gilles Cohen, Michel Duchaussoy, and directed by Patrice Chéreau. Persécution Synopsis: The solitary Daniel and Sonia share an uneasy love/hate relationship. Daniel's life is disrupted by the appearance of a stranger that proceeds to insinuate himself in his life. The man's persistence...
A shocking and offbeat story of two French lovers, Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) and Betty (Beatrice Dalle), who fall into a deeply erotic and all-encompassing relationship. Zorg is a simple repairman in his mid-thirties who lives a relatively dull life in a remote, weathered shack until he meets Betty, a sexy, mercurial younger woman who challenges his way of thinking and forces him to change his life....
The feature film “Shake Hands with the Devil,” based on Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire’s award-winning book, is directed by Roger Spottiswoode, and stars the highly-esteemed actor Roy Dupuis as Dallaire. Deborah Kara Unger portrays one of the few journalists who remained in Rwanda after the genocide began. The cast also includes Jean-Hugues Anglade as Bernard Kouchner, a...
Print: Good - Sound: Good - Label: Universal - Year: 1993 - Cover: OK - Format: 1.85:1 - Length: 1h32m/1h30m - Before: Yes on Video - Again: Yes - Price: Present - Rating: 7/10. In Killing Zoe , American safe-cracker and ex-con Zed ( Eric Stoltz ) arrives in Paris to rob a bank on Bastille Day , but before he meets the team, Zed spends $200 for a night with Zoe ( Julie Delpy ), an angelic, nymph-like...
Canal+ are back. Forget March of the Emperor . This guy has his story down pat. He should be in advertising. <!--break--> Spot aims to highlight that Canal+ = "Original Creativity", it has original programming, series, documentaries and fictions, created by and for Canal+, scripted by prestigious writers such as Olivier Marchal and Jean- Hugues Anglade. More than simply broadcasting...
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Betty Blue Jean-Jacques Beineix managed to define an entire aesthetic of French cinema in the 1980s ("Cinéma du look," which featured highly stylized visuals and stylishly disaffected youth) through just two films, 1981's Diva , and 1986's Betty Blue . The...
Early in Betty Blue , aspiring novelist Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) declares, "She was like a flower with translucent antennae and a mauve plastic heart" in so solemn a tone that it practically dares the viewer to laugh. And so it goes throughout this divisively fleshy 1986 opus. Bett...
The On Ensemble teaches DIY drumming at the Ford tonight. / Photo by Ayumi Kameda. Here are our to-do picks for a post-Fourth Monday in LA: DIY DRUMMING * Tonight the On Ensemble, a contemporary taiko quartet, brings D.I.Y. Drumming to the Ford Amphitheater at 7 pm. Bring your drums, percussion instruments or even paint buckets to play along as the Ensemble coaxes Japanese taiko rhythms out of everyday...
up Wired Science wonders if you really can lift a house with balloons /Film details inside jokes within Pixar's UP down... all around Rants of a Diva names the 25 best performances of the TV season NY Post French Oscar nominee Betty Blue is getting a release with 65 additional racy minutes of Jean-Hugues Anglade & Beatrice Dalle thrown in. Mon dieu Pixar the first teaser for Toy Story 3 My New...